I’m a former owner of a top of the range Model S and I feel strongly that others should be well informed of Tesla’s deficiencies, of which there are many. Tesla fanboy-ism is a very real phenomenon. And although they’re model line is going in the right direction, they have a long way to go before they compete with the driver thoughtfulness of other vehicles in the same price range.
Also also just in: You can not drive a Tesla without using the touchscreen on an almost constant basis. You have never owned a Tesla if you think this is not the case.
Like in any modern analog car, the knobs are free spinning and therefore remember their settings. It’s a tactile version of tapping a screen that is a better UX IMHO. When my significant other uses my car, they hit #2 on the preset settings and everything slides and turns into place. This is a well solved problem and has been for many years. Note: I am a former P85D Model S owner.
Where is your finished data engineering book? I would like to read it.
How do you think a book gets written? Obviously you don't think that someone sits down, puts finger to keyboard, and then a book bursts into fruition. This is a work-in-progress kindly made freely available. Is it really fair to criticize the author for not having finished it yet?
There is a ton of wisdom in this comment. Others would do well to heed your advice. My experience as a consultant and product business owner has very nearly been exactly as you’ve described.
I disagree with most of the comments here stating you should use zero marketing or market to friends, family, or local shops.
Inbound marketing is a powerful tool, doesn’t require you to be a marketing genius, and costs little to no money as an organic content based effort. Write blog posts, publish to Twitter, cross post on game blogs/sites, etc. These things are well proven to work effectively if done consistently. Also, paid ads can work well too, just keep an eye on your spending there.
> At least you got funded. I'm still bootstrapped, spending my own money for the privilege. :)
The best move my founder and I ever made, by leaps and bounds, was to not take any outside investment. If you can manage your cash flow and not get over excited about rocket trajectory growth, bootstrapping has its benefits; for founders especially.
Meh, there's risk involved, but saying it's a "recipe for disaster" implies that you think the outcome is nearly set or that the odds are against you. I challenge that line of thinking.
You don't necessarily "got 6-12 months to make your company profitable or it either fails or you get into massive debt." A counter example could be that if your company's net begins to converge towards profitability, your burn rate would decrease and it's entirely possible that your 6-12 months becomes 18-24 months. Bail if you don't see that convergence and you'll still be able to re-enter the workforce without wiping out your savings. It's not an all or nothing game.
Alternatively, just get to profitability in 6-12 months :)
These paths are not mutually exclusive, which should probably be noted in the article as well. I know many who have done some combination of them, myself included.
Myself and my colleagues do a lot of work in finance and machine learning where low level C++ is king, and we are highly paid for knowing the language intimately. You can generalize this across many parts of the finance industry in my experience (I own a mid-sized ML consulting firm).
Shameless self promotion: My company is working on an open source distributed hypergraph database that tackles this problem, called PatternSpace. Written in C++14, uses Paxos, Cap'n Proto, lots of mechanical sympathy, and is queryable/traversable via subgraph isomorphism among other methods.
Seems like performance is a real advantage, too. Similar to why we sometimes see static CRTP used for the Visitor pattern. I'm using static CRTP for a project that requires extremely low latency, and when compared to it's virtual counterpart, it delivers.
From the presentation materials included in the repo, it looks like it's intended to be a library example of what they'd like to be a language extension.
Yes, but FWIW most linked list implementations have a reference or pointer to the tail, making appends not O(n), but O(1). However, there is a threshold, depending on use case, where a small vector being resized multiple times larger than the original will be faster than many linked list appends. Point being, either can accel depending on use case.
>> And we're sooo far away from this being a problem.
If we're far away from this being a problem, we may be far away from understanding how to solve it. We certainly wouldn't want the former to outpace the later, given what is at stake.
You either weren't looking hard enough or looking in the wrong places if you think there aren't many companies interested in your skill-set.
Send your resume to the email in my profile, if you'd like. We're always looking for guys like you and we can most certainly put those PhD credentials to work.
After figuring out what would fulfill him, he should consider starting his own venture doing exactly that. A venture is my material representation of freedom, his may differ -- the take away is that freedom is what enables you to get unstuck. I used to be in a similar position, making good money as a tech exec and feeling stuck. The freedom to impact the world, in my chosen fashion, was the cure and my only regret was that I didn't figure that out sooner. The most surprising thing to me was that the money side of things accompanied the impact I was able to achieve, without making it a focus.
To your point, people often forget that the lockdown likely played a part in the inability for the second suspect to escape. An entire city looking for you is certainly a possible cause for the second suspect to have been hiding in a boat.
The process certainly could have lead to the capture, even if indirectly.